SLOW STORY ONLINE SERIES WITH LARRY LITTLEBIRDComing ​Fall and Winter 2017

Join Pueblo Elder/Master Storyteller, Larry Littlebird for a slow story, recorded live on the lands Hamaatsa. Offered as a pre-recorded online series, this is an extraordinary opportunity for story listeners and storyworkers to experience tribal American orality through the portal of your computer. During late fall and winter, we gather on the land at the Listening Tree and around the Winter Hearth in the Shepherd's House. So come - gather with us for a slow story at Hamaatsa!

SLOW STORY FORMAT AND TIME FRAME:

The online series is presented in FOUR SEGMENTS with four arcing topics. Each segment has a one hour story-telling with Larry Littlebird at Hamaatsa. It will be filmed live and recorded, so you can view and listen to the story in your own time zone and individual pace.

You and your listening experience is part of the story! Even though this is a "go-at-your-own pace" online series, to honor the interaction between the storyteller and story listener, we will have a SLOW STORY LISTENING CIRCLE on a dedicated private Facebook page. This introduces the tribal orality process of "the call and response" in the circle. We encourage people to share your story response for the benefit of the whole. ​

Each segment culminates with a live recorded story/topic summary from Littlebird after he reads the responses from the LISTENING CIRCLE.

Once you register, the series is designed for you to listen and respond within in your own personal schedule, encouraging you to find your own sacred listening time and space.

SLOW STORY LISTENING CIRCLE:

Littlebird shares a story at Hamaatsa (pre-recorded video)

We invite you to share your story response on the Listening Circle Facebook page

Littlebird reads responses and then shares a story-summary in an informal live recorded video

The listening process repeats with Littlebird telling FOUR ARCING STORIES. You choose to follow the rhythm and flow of the circle as it unfolds at your own pace as the stories are posted.

COST AND REGISTRATION - Registration opens October 1, 2017The cost for this inaugural SLOW STORY series is being graciously offered by Larry Littlebird for $90. We also encourage gift offerings as the spirit moves you for this treasured elder and consecrated storyteller. Once we receive your registration, we will send you the link and password to the SLOW STORY VIDEO SITE and private Facebook LISTENING CIRCLE page.

FOUR ARCING STORY TOPICSThere are four topics under which the slow story will evolve. The topics are to help give participants a sense of what Larry Littlebird will be sharing. However, in an oral tradition culture, the people gather with hearts open and come with no expectations or questions, knowing they will receive the story told for just that particular moment. With this in mind, these topics are broad and open ended to keep the integrity of the real-time story process from Littlebird's Pueblo Indian oral tradition culture.

Water. It all beings with water! Stories about being born and coming into this world. Creation myths, legends of traveling from the second world to this world, the birth of First Man, Mother Wisdom and Yellow Woman. Stories about how the rivers came to be, our kinship to water and our relationship to land; how corn arrived on this earth.

People, Culture and Place: Stories that tell us why Coyote has a bushy tail, why animals cannot talk with people anymore, why the climate is changing and what it means to be indigenous to a place; the Bee People and Plant People and the sacred elements; migration stories; the races, clans, holy men and women and children born for peace.

Way of Blessing: To live in blessing is perhaps more important today than ever. Blessing is a way of reconnecting to all that is. It can bring you peace and grace in times of chaos and distress; stories about choosing the path of blessing; blessing others and receiving blessing for ourselves in everyday life.

Starting Over: Stories that prepare people for rituals and give us the strength for starting over; questions that cannot be answered are shared; stories of death and how to prepare for dying. Ancient prophecies of the world dying, ready to be reborn, to move on into the fourth world. These stories can be very clear and explicit telling exactly what to do to prepare. Or they can point to what cannot be said directly and leave the important things to silence.​